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During the last decade, were you a clock watcher? Leonard da Vinci wrote “A clock (is) to be used by those who grudge the wasting of time.” 1 Those of us who were involved in the advancement of computer graphics during the last decade might ponder that question. How many of us were clock watchers? Was there a wasting of time?
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Dowe, R.J. (1971). Aspects of Interactive Graphic Systems. In: Parslow, R.D., Green, R.E. (eds) Advanced Computer Graphics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4606-7_3
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